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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Some "How Do I" questions
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Some "How Do I" questions |
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Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:08:30 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Robert Anderson <address@hidden>
> On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 19:17, Miles Bader wrote:
> > BTW, you should check out awk sometime, it's vaguely aimed at the same
> > problem space as perl, but it's an utterly cleaner language (it has
> > something like 1/20 of perl's syntax!), and is almost universally
> > installed on unix systems. If Larry Wall had any taste, perl would have
> > looked an awful lot more like awk...
> Cue "two problems" cliches...
Nah. Let's bring up cliches about languages that admit tiny and
tractable implementations and have such a clear operational model that
even when you're "high level programming" you know pretty much exactly
what's going to happen at run-time.
Honestly, funny as I find the "... use awk ... now you have two
problems" joke, it never quite seemed to point to a deeper truth to
me.
-t
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Some "How Do I" questions, Colin Walters, 2003/09/06
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Some "How Do I" questions, Colin Walters, 2003/09/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Some "How Do I" questions, Miles Bader, 2003/09/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Some "How Do I" questions, Colin Walters, 2003/09/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Some "How Do I" questions, Colin Walters, 2003/09/11
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Some "How Do I" questions, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/07
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